Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Reveal Confirmed and Lenovo Launches a New 3D Laptop—Your Gear News of the Week

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The high-end gaming laptop also comes with up to a Core Ultra 9HX processor and an RTX 5090 GPU. It can even support up to the max of 192 GB of RAM and 8 TB of storage. While it’s quite a thick laptop (and weighs well over 7 pounds), its specs and features are as premium as they get, including a 5-MP webcam, a six-speaker sound system, and just about every port imaginable—including Thunderbolt 5. You can opt for the basic 2D version as well, of course, which will likely bring the price down, right along with the cool factor. We still don’t know what that price will be, however, and the North American launch isn’t expected to come until later this fall, as the laptop will launch initially exclusively in China. —Luke Larsen

Whoop Finally Releases New Bands

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We’ve included the Whoop band in our guide to the Best Fitness Trackers because it’s unique—it doesn’t have a screen, and you can wear it anywhere on your body by inserting it into a Whoop Body garment—but it has been years since it’s seen significant upgrades. That changed this week when the company announced the Whoop 5.0 and the Whoop MG, two new wearables that offer new health and performance features (for Whoop, anyway) for day-to-day use, not just for elite performers like Cristiano Ronaldo.

Some of these include Healthspan, which lets you see your Pace of Aging, and a Heart Screener with an FDA-cleared ECG feature that allows you to take a reading from your wrist. Most significantly, the new Whoop purports to measure your blood pressure, which isn’t currently available on any other wearable fitness tracker. Whoop’s patent-pending technology estimates systolic and diastolic readings from other cardiac measurements...

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